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PowerPlace establishes regional structure to grow broker partnerships

PowerPlace has restructured its 36-strong field based sales and consultant team into three regions, each to be managed by three newly appointed senior regional managers.

Insurance Age | 05 Mar 2010

Xchanging sees growth in profit and revenue

Xchanging’s results for the year ending 31 December 2009 revealed a 35% increase in revenue, increasing to £750.4m (2008:£557.8m)

Insurance Age | 01 Mar 2010

TGS confident in becoming top software house

Transactor Global Solutions (TGS) will become the software house of choice for the broking community and quadruple in size by 2013, according to its chief technology officer

Insurance Age | 26 Feb 2010

Brokers warned that failure to retain e-data risks legal action

Brokers are at an increased risk of litigation if they fail to keep a detailed record of all e-communications for an adequate amount of time, according to legal experts

Insurance Age | 26 Feb 2010

Groupama: online trading push to underpin commercial ambitions

Groupama Insurances' commercial chief has outlined the insurer's ambition to expand its electronic trading capability in 2010

Insurance Age | 26 Feb 2010

Brokers ignore social networking potential

Nearly two thirds of brokers do not use social networking to support their business and have no intention to do so, according to an online poll on Insurance Age website broking.co.uk

Insurance Age | 26 Feb 2010

Merger talk unfounded

Market rumours that SSP had opened talks with Broker Direct with a view to a possible takeover have been denied by both firms

Insurance Age | 26 Feb 2010

Aviva joins forces with SSP

Aviva has teamed up with global IT company SSP to give 600 extra brokers access to personal lines products.

Insurance Age | 25 Feb 2010

Open GI wins £10m contract with PowerPlace

Open GI has signed the contract with PowerPlace to develop new electronic products on the Open Trader platform

Insurance Age | 25 Feb 2010

Open GI appoints head of software development

Technology company Open GI has appointed Sue Craig to the new role of head of software development.

Professional Broking | 16 Feb 2010

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Chinese software firm opens first UK office

Zurich and Shanghai-based eBaoTech has launched a presence in the UK with the opening of an office in Birmingham where it hopes to create 15 new jobs

Insurance Age | 15 Feb 2010

Chaucer raids Groupama for e-commerce chief

Chaucer Insurance, the UK division of Chaucer Holdings, has appointed Ken Hutchinson as head of e-commerce.

Insurance Age | 12 Feb 2010

Policyfast plans to double broker base

Policyfast, the web-based underwriting agency for independent brokers, has recruited Jacky Moore in the role of broker development manager.

Insurance Age | 08 Feb 2010

PowerPlace targets brokers with new head office

PowerPlace has opened a new head office in Warwickshire, between Warwick and Leamington Spa.

Insurance Age | 05 Feb 2010

Keychoice Underwriting takes first steps towards market launch

Keychoice Underwriting has unveiled its senior management team in the run up to its official launch later this year

Insurance Age | 03 Feb 2010

Broker retaliates against direct writers with launch

Cheshire-based broker RK Henshall & Co is to hit back against direct writers with the launch of two online offerings for intermediaries

Insurance Age | 29 Jan 2010

Fighting talk: Insurecom CEO refutes rivals' allegations of spin

Phillip Walter, chief executive of software firm Insurecom, has hit back at industry rivals who claim the company's latest financial results owe more to spin than to reality

Insurance Age | 29 Jan 2010

Research on broker IT spend reveals an improved outlook

Brokers are more optimistic about the year ahead than they were about 2009, according to recent research into the predicted levels of IT spend

Insurance Age | 29 Jan 2010

Unexpected loss of MD forces e-division reshuffle

Towergate Risk Solutions has reorganised its e-division and sales and service management team following the untimely death of former managing director for Towergate e-division, Matthew Bright

Insurance Age | 29 Jan 2010

Insurance fails to instill trust

The insurance sector has trailed third from bottom in a survey revealing what the 'well-informed' members of the UK public trust in business

Insurance Age | 29 Jan 2010

Chubb launches enhances broker website

Chubb Insurance has announced the launch of its newly enhanced broker website - Masterpiece24 - which for the first time has been designed to allow brokers to quote and bind high net worth cover online

Insurance Age | 28 Jan 2010

Ewen Gilmour appointed as LMA representative on XIS board

Ewen Gilmour has been appointed as the Lloyd's Market Association's (LMA) representative on the board of Xchanging Ins-sure (XIS) as non-executive director

Insurance Age | 28 Jan 2010

Groupama appoints new head of e-commerce

Groupama Insurances has appointed Malcolm Etchells, currently operations development manager, as its new head of e-commerce, reporting to Kevin Kiernan, Groupama's personal lines director

Insurance Age | 27 Jan 2010